Definition of Sestettos

1. sestetto [n] - See also: sestetto

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sestettos

sesters
sesterterpene
sesterterpenes
sesterterpenoid
sesterterpenoids
sestertia
sestertii
sestertium
sestertius
sestets
sestett
sestette
sestettes
sestetto
sestettos (current term)
sestetts
sestina
sestinas
sestines
seston
sestons
sestrin
sestrins
set
set(p)
set-apart
set-aside
set-aside(p)

Literary usage of Sestettos

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1835)
"Mosche- les, Beethoven and others have composed sestettos for wind and ... Vocal sestettos are used in operas; and th,n of Mozart, in the second act of Don ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"Mosche- les, Beethoven and others have composed sestettos for wind and ... Vocal sestettos are used in operas; and that of Mozart, in the second act of Don ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"Vocal sestettos are used in operas ; and that of Mozart, in the second act of Don Juan, is celebrated. ..."

4. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1851)
"Mosche- les, Beethoven und others have composed sestettos for ... Vocal sestettos arc used in operas ; and that of Mozart, in the second act of Don Juan, ..."

5. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by Eminent Writers by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, Adela Harriet Sophia Bagot Wodehouse (1879)
"... jointly than they could by their single efforts, songs have disappeared, and interminable quartettes, quintettes, sestettos etc. usurp their place. ..."

6. The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review by Richard Mackenzie Bacon (1818)
"... of the most approved instrumental music; consisting of full pieces, concertantes for not less than three principal instruments^ sestettos, ..."

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